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It also rather said the forms were a product of a long standing understanding between the Imo State government and Labour in the State.
Imo Workers had last week claimed that they were issued “pay off forms” before issued cheques of their salaries, a move they described as a ploy to sack them from the state civil service in 2016.
Speaking in a radio programmme in Owerri, the Special Adviser to the Imo State Governor on Public Enlightenment and Strategy, Kelechi Okpaleke, said the forms are covered by Civil Service Rules and nothing outside the rules was embedded in the forms.
He denied that the forms were a subtle way to retrench some workers in the State workforce, stressing that those who are worried about the forms are workers that are indolent and who falsified their age.
Okpaleke explained that the State government is concerned over certain disparities in the state workforce, revealing that some law officers in the State Ministry of Justice earn as much N390,000 per month, while their counterparts in the Education Ministry receive N57,000.
He said this is unacceptable as 80% of the revenue of the State is gulped by civil servants in payment of monthly salaries.
The Governor’s aide said Imo State has the highest wage bill in the South East and the South – South, revealing that the State government discovered that there are fraudulent employments in the Ministries. Such invalid employees, according to him, will be weeded off soon to reduce the ballooning monthly wage bill of the State workforce.
He revealed that dwindling prices of oil and the
present state of the economy compelled the State Governor to reduce the
salaries of public appointees by 20%.
Okpaleke said some groups of pensioners have been
paid, while the ongoing verification exercise has continued to reveal that
ghost pensioners are replete in the system.
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